NEW YORK — Brooklyn-born country performer Jack Grace recalls opening for the late Jerry Lee Lewis in 2007 — and the premature conclusion of their time together.
“Jerry Lee Lewis and I had the same manager at the time and that was the first show we did at B.B. King’s together,” Grace told the Daily News. “The first time Jerry Lee Lewis heard me, he turned to our manager and said, ‘He sounds like that (Johnny) Cash kid, but good.’”
Grace, a lifelong Lewis fan, was thrilled. It was at that show he asked Lewis to sign his guitar, which the “Great Balls of Fire” singer declined to autograph, telling him “I only sign pianos, son.”
